The beginning information in the front jacket of the book states that is the last soccer game of the season and the score is tied. With that being said, the tension is high. All the players must work together in order to score the big win. With only 16 pages of text, Mr. Burleigh creates a setting where the team can score the big soccer win to be the champions. Each page has four lines of free verse poetry, using two or three word sentences/lines. The last line of every stanza is italicized with exclamation marks. The pastel graphics are the work of Stephen T. Johnson, who spent many hours attending soccer games and photographing players in action. This was very easy reading and was quite the enjoyable little poetry book. With watching my daughters play soccer for many years,, I know how it feels to witness the team working together to win the game.